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The article explains the concepts of Duplex, Speed, and Auto-Negotiation. The ethtool commands needed to configure your ethernet card are included and covered in great detail.

Server Blocks are a feature of the Nginx web server that allows you to host multiple websites on one server. As opposed to setting up and configuring a server for each domain, hosting a number of websites on a single machine saves both time and money. Learn how to set up Nginx server blocks and configure a local host file on CentOS 7.

Learn how to obtain and install SSL Certificates on Apache CentOS 7. The article explains how to use an automated certificate authority like Let’s Encrypt, a commercial Comodo certificate, and how to create a certificate of your own.

Squid Proxy specifically allows a server to cache frequently visited web pages. When a user seeks a web page or file, the request goes to the proxy server — the intermediary device between the desktop computer and the internet. The proxy server pulls the resource and relays it to the user, by caching the new data and using it for future requests made to the same server. In this guide, you will learn how to set up, configure, and install a Squid Proxy server on CentOS 7.

Most modern operating systems detect and synchronize the time with the NIST time server. NIST operates an atomic clock, which it uses for the time server. However, some users may find that their system isn’t synchronizing correctly. This guide will give you several methods for updating the time, date, and timezone on an Ubuntu Linux system.

Finding out which Ubuntu version is running on your system can be important when troubleshooting issues or searching for installation guides. Also, it is essential to ensure you are not using a version which is outdated if you want to keep your computer security risks. In this tutorial, learn how to check the Ubuntu version running on your operating system.

Ubuntu 18.04 (codenamed Bionic Beaver) is a free, open-source distribution of Linux, based on the Debian operating system. In this tutorial, learn how to install on Ubuntu 18.04. 

Apache Tomcat is a free, open-source, lightweight application server used for Java-based web applications. Developers use it to implement Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies (including Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket). Read this guide to learn how to install and configure Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 18.04.

Node Package Manager (npm) is Node’s official package manager, used for installing and managing package dependencies. In this guide, learn how to install Node.js and npm on CentOS 7. We also cover managing multiple Node versions and install dependencies.

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java implementation package developed by the Apache Software Foundation. In this tutorial learn how to install Tomcat 9 on CentOS 7.